Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Vice Chair, Quality, Department of Radiology
- Associate Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Medical School: Thomas Jefferson University
- Residency: Pennsylvania Hospital
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
اردو
Urdu
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Amerihealth of NJ Core
- Amerihealth of NJ Enhanced
- Amerihealth of NJ HMO
- Amerihealth of NJ Local Value
- Amerihealth of NJ POS
- Amerihealth of NJ PPO
- Amerihealth of NJ Regional Preferred
- Amerihealth of NJ Secure
- Amerihealth of NJ Ultimate (PPO)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
- Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Diagnostic Radiology, 2007
- American Association for Women Radiologists, National
- American College of Radiology. Consultant "Algorithm Based Recommendations Innovation Grant" and "Multicenter AAA reporting project", National
- American Roentgen Ray Society, National
- Association of Academic Radiology, National
- High Value Practice Academic Alliance., National
- Pennsylvania Radiological Society, Local
- Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society, Local
- Radiological Society of North America, National
- Radiology Alliance for Health Services Research, National
- Society for Abdominal Radiologists, National
- Society for Radiologists Ultrasound, National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Owei L, Priem E, Passman JE, Zafar H, Jones LP, Nazarian M, Cohen DL, White CA, Kharlip J, Wachtel H. From detection to diagnosis: Early outcomes of a specialized adrenal nodule clinic. , Surgery: 2026
Jha P, Sadowski EA, Gupta A, Maturen KE, Patel-Lippmann KK, Zafar HM, Kamaya A, Antil N, Guo Y, Barroilhet LM, Shen L. Benign Lesions Scored as O-RADS US v2022 4 and 5 Categories: Prevalence and Morphologic Analysis. , Radiology, 319(2): 2026
Smith AJB, Mehta SJ, Cook T, Chambers C, Rochester S, Zafar H, Jones L, Howell EA, McCarthy AM, Bekelman J. Clinician Nudge to Gynecologic Oncology Referral at Suspected Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis: A Pilot Study , Cancer Control: 2026
Kang SK, Hoang J, Alkasab R, Bello JA, Berland L, Bronner J, Chatfield M, Kurth D, Pisano E, Rawson JV, Seidenwurm D, Weinreb J, Zafar HM, Pandharipande PV Developing Algorithm-Based Recommendations in the ACR: Defining a New Process , J Am Coll Radiol , S1546-1440(25)00563-0: 2025
Atul B Shinagare 1, Prasad R Shankar 2, Victoria Chernyak 3, Sean A Woolen 4, Brian R Herts 5, Ezana M Azene 6, Donald G Mitchell 7, Andrew B Rosenkrantz 8, Kesav Raghavan 9, Boaz Karmazyn 10, Nadja Kadom 11, Hanna M Zafar 12, Priya Bhosale 13, Richard K Do 14, Daniel A Rodgers 15, Jennifer C Broder 16, Mythreyi Chatfield 17, David B Larson 18, Matthew S Davenport 19 Potential Frameworks for Communicating Diagnostic Certainty in Radiology Reports: From the ACR Commission on Quality and Safety , J Am Coll Radiol , 22(11): 2025,1390-1398
Sadowski E, Priyanka J, Patel-Lippmann KK, Guo Y, Gupta A, Kamaya A, Maturen KE, Zafar HM, Barroilhet L, Antil N, Shen L Ovarian-adnexal imaging reporting and data system (O-RADS) Ultrasound (US) risk assessment system: Morphologic analysis of benign cases in O-RADS 4 and 5. , Radiologic Society of North America Annual Meeting: 2024
Cook TS, Lalevic D, Sukumaran R, Chambers C, Zafar HM, Tripathi S Benchmarking optimal training data size for accurate classification in renal surgical pathology reports. , Radiologic Society of North America Annual Meeting: 2024
Shen L, Sadowski EA, Gupta A, Maturen KE, Patel-Lippmann KK, Zafar HM, Kamaya A, Antil N, Guo Y, Barroilhet LM, Jha P. The Ovarian-Adnexal Reporting and Data System (O-RADS) US Score Effect on Surgical Resection Rate. , Radiology , 313(1): 2024
Sundaram KM, Zafar HM Improving the Value Proposition of Multiparametric Prostate MRI. , J Am Coll Radiol, 21(9): 2024
Zafar HM, Rawson JV Liberating Structures in Strategic Planning: Methods to Foster Engagement , Acad Radiol, 31(2): 2024,438-445